L. Merion police catch suspected bank robbers

Lower Merion police caught two suspected bank robbers who attempted a getaway via SEPTA yesterday afternoon.

A man who claimed he had a gun robbed the TD Bank at 401 W. Lancaster Ave., Haverford, at 12:54 p.m. and escaped on foot, police said. Pursuing police found paint from the bank money's exploded dye pack on the steps of the Haverford train station and arrested a man walking by himself about two blocks away, on Montgomery Avenue near Woodside Road, who had "traces of dye on his arm," a police news release said.

A witness at the train station told police the arrested man had been with another person who got on the eastbound R5. SEPTA held that train at the Ardmore station, and police arrested a woman passenger found with the bank's money, police said. Police did not release the names of the suspected robbers. - Derrick Nunnally